Strachan
PgDip & M.Arch Student in Advanced Architectural Studies.
Posts tagged "Personal" and/or "Portfolio" are my own work.
I’m refusing to use any rendering programmes/plugins to create renders this year - just building everything up from measured perspective drawings. This may well back-fire…
Cultivating The Clyde - Masters Thesis April 2012 - Andrew Strachan
A double page spread from my research booklet with some quick sketches highlighting the primary pedestrian routes through my site.
3 weeks to go…
Finding Architecture In Fashion
“Architecture and fashion. It’s a convergence we’ve seen time and time again, whether in Adolf Loos polemical essays about proper dress or in the twisted rubber of a pair of Lacoste sneakers designed by Zaha Hadid. We recently got a chance to speak with Karen Moon, co-founder of the newly launched StyleMusee, about the overlap between these two areas of design. StyleMuse is described as “a customizable style inspiration board keeping you at the pulse of fashion. It lets users visually explore the fashion industry’s social media posts on Facebook to discover designers and muses they love; and never knew they loved. Their hope is to eventually take the style inspiration that people find in social media and offer tailored shopping recommendations. Their first editorial, Architectural Inspiration, immediately caught our attention, and Moon gave us the lowdown on building,dwelling, thinking and dressing”
Govan Graving Dock Electric Bricks
I manage to ‘salvage’ a couple of electric cable marker bricks from the piles of rubble down at the docks. Assuming that the piles of rubble where I found these bricks are comprised of bricks/cobbles/junk from the immediate surrounding area, the brick on the right is around 150 years old and the one on the left around 120 years.
The sole purpose of these bricks was to be laid down alongside the cobbles and follow the lines of the electricity cables around the Graving Docks.
That little touch of quality and detailing is what’s missing from much modern architecture…and they’re now in my bedroom.
Cultivating The Clyde - Masters Thesis - April 2012 - Andrew Strachan
Some draft proposals for the research book I’m composing for my Thesis. These would be printed as double page spreads and serve as a brief introduction to a new chapter.
